External Data acquisition

External Data acquisition

Finding the right data is the key to your success.

Finding the right data is the key to your success.

External data might often be the missing part to see the full picture about your customers or
processes. Information such as demographics, moving patterns or lifestyle of customers can me
obtained through external data.

Having established that External Data is important, it is vital to point out
how
difficult and time intensive it is to obtain the right kind of data today. In fact, a recent a
scientific study found, that experienced data scientist’s judgments on the relevancy of a given
data
source is roughly as accurate as a coin-toss!

Given, that data first needs to be obtained and pre-processed before its value is quantifiable,
misjudgements on what external data to acquire can be very costly.

Industry-Standard Approach

PeakData Approach

Number of potential data sources

Few*

Many*

Quality of ideas for Data Sources

Equal share of relevant and irrelevant sources*

More relevant sources*

Acquisition cost

Normal*

Half*

You can decide to use any module of our methodology, or all of them sequentially. We bill by the time
(and wages paid) to the crowd workers delivering your results in each step. Since you see the
intermediate results (and the current cost), you can decide to end the process at any time.

Data Scientist for hire

Data Scientist for hire

Highly skilled reinforcements for your Data Science team billed by the week

Highly skilled reinforcements for your Data Science team billed by the week

If you quickly need to scale up your capacity, you can hire our data scientists on a weekly basis.
Our team has versatile education and hands on experience to support various data-driven
initiatives.

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Agility

We thrive in environments with short feedback cycles and agile teams. This way,
we integrate well with your existing team and IT / DevOps landscape and will contribute to
your Data Science products with a little warm-up time.

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Technologies

We use state of the art technologies to deliver cutting edge data products. We
are
especially
proficient in Amazon AWS Big Data technologies such as Kinesis, Redshift and EMR as well
as other tools frequently used in data science projects such as Spark, MapReduce and
Kafka

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Motivation

We are a young and motivated company, who believes in honest collaboration with
clients.
We
believe that it is crucial to communicate the risks and opportunities involved in the
project, such that the client can make educated decisions on how to move forward.

Data Science Workshops

Data Science Workshops

Ensure the growth of your Data Scientists

Ensure the growth of your Data Scientists

The target audience of our workshops are intermediate Data Scientist who would like to deepen their
understanding in one of the topics below.

For managers who are interested to explore how they could leverage the internal data of their
enterprise to generate value, we offer free strategy workshops. Learn more

Practical Statistics

An introduction to Statistics for Data Scientist who received the basic training at their
higher education.

Learn how to run your code in the cloud, what services exist, how to scale up, and how to
store/distribute results safely

Theory: 0.5 day

Practice (Optional): 0.5-1.5 days,
depending
on your education goals

Workshops can be conducted on your premises or on ours. The target audience
is people with technical backgrounds. To allow for an interactive learning experience, we recommend
splitting groups larger than 10 people into multiple workshops.

CHF 2000 per workshop-day.

If the workshop is conducted at your premises, we bill commuting at 150 CHF/hr from Zug starting from
the
second hour (the first hour is free). There is no surcharge for workshops conducted in our Zurich
office
(Next to the train station in Schlieren).

Note: Michael teaches an extended version of the Practical Statistics course at the University of
Zurich
for PhD students. Therefore, PhD students at ETH or UZH can enroll for free on the Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Data Science Coaching

Data Science Coaching

Get a sparring-partner for your Data Scientists

Get a sparring-partner for your Data Scientists

Sometimes, all you need is access to an expert to conduct your analysis. Someone who can help you
when
you’re stuck, who can help you decide what statistical method to use, what Software to apply or how
to
nest and optimize your models for a given task.

We have been in such situation ourselves and appreciated the help of our peers. Therefore, we offer a
flexible support model, where you can reach out to us with questions or ask us for advise.

For architectural questions, or when project managers are at a cross-roads, we can support you with
extensive research on the potential alternatives as well as further suggestions extending them.
The format of such discussions is up to you; whether you'd like informal phone calls, reports or
presentations; we can help.

Talk to us to reach a framework agreement that allows your team to reach out
to
us with questions and let
us be your sparring partner.

Let us tell you more

We are grateful for your interest!

Please let us know your e-Mail address and name, and we'll get in touch with you for more
information.